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  1. Letter from Haddow, George Caldwell

    around. We are doing a good many fatigues with occasionally some drill bombing or bayonet fighting. ... us we were kept pretty busy as there are hills all over the camp and some of the addresses weren’t ... a few days ago which I must acknowledge as soon as possible. There is a big stack of letters, some from ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:14pm

  2. Letter from Swinton, Hugh Alastair

    some such post. I had a few anxious moments when my gas cape refused to fall as per schedule. A chum ... pleased. I am enclosing some snaps and negatives which I hope you’ll like. Some of the negs are very weak ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:16pm

  3. Letter from Cook, Alfred Frank

    I will certainly be glad when this is over. We should really be out now but for some reason they are ... up because there are some fellows around here who do not intend to make good and when on parade they ... I thought it was some contrast. I really do not know what to write about for we have been on here so long ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:17pm

  4. Letter from Ramsey, Edward Cresswell

    then we are I think going to some camp in England for a while from where we will probably get a few ... huts 30 or 40 men in each, and a suit of clothes is a thing some of these men would be mighty glad to ... know when we go back to England, but in a week or so we start back for France some place near Bolonge, ...

    Editor - Nov 23 2021 - 7:27am

  5. Letter from Dean, Harold Adelbert

    civilians now-adays. I would like to see some sort of conscription for some of those kind of fellows. As for ... to hear your chickens and garden are going on good. I might be home for a meal some time or other As ...

    Editor - Jan 31 2022 - 4:49pm

  6. Letter from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer

    a state of mind the people must have who run that paper....      By jove, I wish you could see some of the ... I had some money I could just buy the loveliest things for almost nothing — The French sure know how to ... other troops, for some reason. Medical Special Items Europe France Letter from soldier 1916 March 29th ...

    Editor - Mar 7 2022 - 1:09pm

  7. Letter from Gray, Robert Hampton

    weeks since I have had letters from you. I have had some dated last November however but they really are ... ship so we need no longer worry about it. – I am still travelling about and am likely to be for some ... I seem to remember it as being February or some time like that. I hope I shall be informed at once as ...

    Editor - Jul 14 2022 - 1:25pm

  8. Letter from Gray, Robert Hampton

    some time in Gibraltar and later some time in Alexandria (It was there that I was wearing my great ... thing I am allowed to say is that we are now serving in Australian waters so at last you will have some ...

    Editor - Jul 14 2022 - 1:23pm

  9. Letter from Davis, William Worth

    9.30. Paul & I were down town last night or rather yesterday evening, and believe me things are some ... a good supply at Eastbourne to be mailed to me tho. We tried to get some of those large heavy safety pins ... for blankets, and we did not know the word for “safety-pin” and sure had some fun. We could not get ...

    Editor - Mar 16 2023 - 4:33pm

  10. Letter from Stubbs, Robin Anthony

    rubber boots are barely high enough in some places. Probably the tractor is partly the cause of their ... muddy roads. On Monday morning Uncle Geoff and I hauled some of the hay Dick had baled in the summer, ... also fed the horses and cattle and moved some cattle from one field to another. It was great fun—a ...

    Editor - May 30 2023 - 8:21am